Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney appeared Sunday at the I-X Center in Cleveland to make one last pitch to Northeast Ohio.

Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, discussed many of his talking points, including his five-point plan for America, while using the forum to be critical of his opponent, President Barack Obama.

At stake are Ohio’s 18 Electoral College votes and recent polls show the race in Ohio is very close.

Romney spoke for about 29 minutes before of a crowd 6,000 estimated by campaign officials, who said the total was provided by the U.S. Secret Service.

6,000 may not sound like a lot but Cleveland is a Democratic stronghold.

Here are some money quotes:

“Two more days and we can start rebuilding our country”

“I won’t waste any time complaining about my predecessor”

“I’m not just going take office on January 20th, I’m going take responsibility for that office”

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All these tied polls are making me nervous. Of course the polls with Obama leading are all in never-never land with 2008 level turnout assumptions, so ignore those. And there are a few outliners on each side But it’s looking a lot closer than I’d like. So vote.

But here’s the thing, look at all these crowd sizes we’ve been seeing. I suspect the “likely voter” measurements from most of these polls, even the ones that have a good record, are a bit off. I still think we’re going to see a Romney win. Don’t know about a landslide, but I don’t think it’s going to be a hanging chad one either.

Buzz off, troll.
Yesterday in Ohio, Obama played to 4000 at the exact same indoor arena he mocked McCain for playing to the weekend before the election.
The worm has turned & only you fools can’t see it, which is why you cling to blatant lies, like saying that at last night at the Katy Perry concert/Obama rally Obama played to 20,000 when the arena holds less than 10,000.

The one (and only) silver lining about this Sandy tragedy is that it killed any & all hope of that little tyrant Bloomberg running for POTUS (and it probably ended his hopes of winning re-election as Mayor). Do you realize this asshole actually has NYD using resources to make sure all cars have at least 3 passengers? FFS.

Tom Barrett, the mayor of Milwaukee, who only won big in 2 counties, Milwaukee and Dane (Madison). We stayed up late that night watching the results, delighted that Walker won by a bigger margin than in the original election.

Note that PPP had Walker ahead by only 3. They were reporting at the time that Barrett had momentum and was closing the gap, and they weren’t alone in reporting that. The spread ended up being 4 points higher. But on the day of the race, all the buzz was that exit polls were showing a tight race.

The polls had Ford ahead by 1 to 2 points in the 1976 Ford/Carter election too.

Pat Caddell (former Dem pollster & no fan of Romney or the GOP) said the post-Sandy polls are all showing a definite movement TO Romney despite the top lines. He said it reminds him of the 1976 election (which he worked as a pollster on, for Carter — so he’s not going by what he read but what he lived through).

David Axelrod, a senior adviser to President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign, dismissed on Sunday the notion that Mitt Romney is making Pennsylvania competitive as the GOP presidential nominee heads there later in the day.
“They understand that they’re in deep trouble,” Axelrod said on “Fox News Sunday.” “They’ve tried to expand the map because they know in states like Ohio… they’re behind and they’re not catching up at this point.”
Axelrod argued that Romney’s trips to Florida and Virginia are signs that they haven’t locked up states where the Republican should be performing well.
“They understand that the traditional, or the battleground, states that we’ve been focusing are not working out for them,” Axelrod said. “Now they’re looking for somewhere, desperately looking for somewhere.”

Romney’s going to FL because he’s trying to get coattails in the Senate race (Connie Mack isn’t doing well there). He might very well have gone to PA for the same thing (Casey is doing better than Smith there), especially since IN & MO aren’t the sure things that they were.

Axelrod knows it because when Wallace asked him about the early vote numbers in Ohio showing that the GOP had erased Obama’s early vote advantage he couldn’t respond.

So we see already that Mitt thinks of others more than Obama. Remember how Obama was “its all about me” in the general and in 2010, wouldn’t appear on behalf of Dems and hogged all the money for himself?

we’re trying to relax and watch the Munsters in England on our local tv station and every commercial break there are at least 2 bonco bama ads – the one set in Marion, a town of 40,000 in central Indiana, where interestedly enough I taught spec. ed many, many years ago. And no I don’t recognize any of the people in this ad.

Hey, I’m all for this stuff. This election shouldn’t be this close. The Obama cult has magical powers, and its media lapdogs are hypnotized. Americans will vote either for change or for the same, but I cannot see how most Americans want to stay on the Obama magical mystery tour.

My deep in the kool aid Obot FB friends all posted links to that reliable source Mother Jones with an article titled “7 Prognosticators With Good News for Nervous Obama Fans” with the subtitle “Freaking out about next Tuesday?Gaze into these guys’ electoral crystal balls. (Warning: Math ahead).”

I think they started when Obama referred to “Polish Death Camps” back in July & refused to apologize for days after Polish Pres. demanded it & picked up steam when Romney got Lech Walesa’s endorsement in August. Here’s an under the radar ad that Romney ran in those areas right after that trip:

I don’t understand the way she dresses. Sometimes Michelle’s clothes are too small and sleeveless when I think it’s not appropriate. Her dress at the DNC is a great example. A couple of sizes too small and she needed sleeves.

THIS.
She doesn’t dress for her body type,she dresses by “what’s in style” & almost always one size too small– sometimes she gets it right & she looks really good but I’m convinced at this poit it is by accident

Is it surprising the plane carrying 4700 tons(?) or pounds(?) of mail (including the absentee ballots of the military) went down and all the mail burned. Those who wanted to have 2nd ballots sent to them had to ask for that to happen. Of course, they also had to know the ballots were lost and somehow had to request the replacement ballots in time for the ballots to count.

The rally isn’t scheduled to begin until 5:30 pm ET, but tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians have already descended on Bucks County, Pa., to show their support for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. The Pa. rally comes on the heels of a massive rally in Cleveland just hours ago.

How big is the crowd? No official figures yet, but some Twitter users say at least 25,000:

I was wondering about that. Just suddenly this weekend you started to see reports that Obama was drawing in big crowds. 14,000 in Concord, NH, 23,000 in Miami today. This is, not coincidentally, in places where he’s appearing with Bill Clinton only. I was wondering if it was the Clinton effect, or if they were pumping numbers. Looks like both,

Mitt will win it because it’s destiny.🙂
Mitt was mocked by Obama, Biden and the media. That he’s come this far is superhuman. Well, Mitt may be tied with Obama today, but he won’t be on Tuesday, the real poll. Mitt is a smart man who knows the score and knows what it takes to win.

I had another Obot come to my door today trying to find my daughter who is not living here right now as she hasn’t voted yet (no one gave her a stamp). I do find it odd that the Obots feel the need to go door to door in Washington state making sure ballots are returned. Something must be up. Washington is deep blue and we never see ads or Presidential candidates.

In 2008 I had Obama people knock my door, and I live in CA and in one of the deepest blue areas of CA. I got a robo call today (I hate those) from the CA Democratic Party. I think I’m going to abandon the independent registration and choose GOP. I want the Democrats to leave me alone.

They don’t leave you alone. I have always been an ‘unaffiliated voter’, but when I came home today, i found my front door plastered with stuff supporting Obama, Warren, Tsongas, and all of the down ticket state Dems. I don’t know whether one person dropped it all on my door or it they were tag teaming it.